Malthus, Thomas Robert(1776–1834) Thomas Robert Malthus, the English economist and moral philosopher, is most famous for his contributions to population studies. In his Principles of Political Economy (1820) and in his controversies with David...

Thomas Robert Malthus, cleric, moral scientist and economist, was born near Guildford, Surrey. He entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1784, graduated in mathematics as ninth Wrangler in 1788 and was a non-resident fellow of his college from 1793 until...

1766-1834 English Economist Thomas Malthus was one of the most important English economic theorists of the early nineteenth century. He is best known for his influential work, An Essay on the Principle of Population, first published anonymously in...

Economist Thomas Robert Malthus advocated controlling population growth to avoid food shortages. Economist 1766-1834 Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer,...

A leading classical economist who played a major part in founding modern DEMOGRAPHY. After Cambridge, where he was a student and fellow of Jesus College (1784–1805), for the rest of his career he was professor of modern history and political...

(born Feb. 14/17, 1766, Rookery, near Dorking, Surrey, Eng.—died Dec. 23, 1834, St. Catherine, near Bath, Somerset) British economist and demographer. Born into a prosperous family, he studied at the University of Cambridge and was elected a...

Thomas Robert Malthus is best remembered for his 1798 treatise titled An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society. Thomas Robert Malthus. (Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.) In that work, he argued...

The nineteenth century thesis of Thomas Malthus was that population increases exponentially while food production increases arithmetically. Food production has not followed his model but there is controversy over the limit to growth...

The British demographer and political economist Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (13 February, 1766 – 23 December, 1834), has become best-known for his influential views on population growth. Modern commentators generally refer to him as Thomas Malthus,...